Feature: Marty's Musical Meltdown

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• Music and DVD Reviews: Saga, Magnum, Loudness, Fear Factory, Ozzy Osbourne, and Volksmetal

  A bunch of older rockers showing the young ones how it is done.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Aug 12, 2012

• Music Reviews: Loverboy, Anvil, Helstar, Marty Friedman, Outlaws and Rush

  Old(er) guys with new tricks... doing it rather well actually.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Aug 09, 2012

• Music Reviews: Xander Demos, The Company Band, Crystal Viper, Circle II Circle, Neal Morse, and Scott Kelly & the Road Home

  It's a diverse bunch of rock this week, all good for the most part.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Jul 30, 2012

• Music CD/DVD Reviews: Duran Duran, Staind, Delain, Eagle Twin, Grave Digger, and Striker

  Doom, goth and post-rock mix with some straight of pop rock goodness.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Jul 25, 2012

• Music Reviews: Joanna Dean, Doro, Wigelius, District 97, Cloudscape, and Mörglbl

  New music, plus remembering a musical genius.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Jul 18, 2012

• Music Reviews: Coralspin, Michael Des Barres Band, HellYeah, Hollywood Burnouts, Oedipus and Herman Frank

  Sixties nostalgia, sleaze, heavy metal and some heavy something or other awful.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Jul 03, 2012

• Music and DVD Reviews: Asia, Black Light Burns, Castle, Earthen Grave, Ihsahn, and Pink Floyd

  Pink Floyd, doom prog, extreme prog & some normal metal too.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Jun 26, 2012

• Music Reviews: And One, Candlemass, Circus Maximus, Firewind, Mydra and Virgin Steele

  It was going to be heavy week until I decided to sneak in the first disc.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Jun 19, 2012

• Music Reviews: Angel King, The Dogs Divine, Eternal Flight, Gun Barrel, Nightmare, Sledge Leather, Savage and Vengeance

  All sorts of heavy and hard rock, with a touch of NWOBHM.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Jun 13, 2012

• Music Reviews: Hardline, Jorn, Lita Ford, Malice, Crystal Viper, and Galahad

  It is very much a mixed bag of styles and quality of hard rock releases this week.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Jun 05, 2012

• Music Reviews: Johan Randen, Hartmann, Driver, Bangalore Choir, Fate, Luley, and Alfonzetti

  All manner of guitar rock this week.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on May 30, 2012

• Music Reviews: The Murder of My Sweet, Diablo Swing Orchestra, Winter in Eden, Teodor Tuff, Spider Rockets, Great White, Wig Wam

  The usual mix of heavy and hard rock, with lashings of catchiness.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on May 24, 2012

• Music Reviews: Metallica, Voodoo Highway, Empires of Eden, Burzum, Dominanz, and Loincloth

  An iffy EP, some power metal, and some weird stuff.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on May 15, 2012

• Music Reviews: Sweet, At Vance, Ancient VVisdom, Brand New Sin, Dark New Day, Job for a Cowboy and Stormwarrior

  Time for a new column, and this one will be a bit eclectic.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Apr 30, 2012

• Music DVD and CD Reviews: Deep Purple, Jeff Healey, Unisonic, Freak Kitchen, Tyketto, Trixter, and Crazy Lixx

  Hard rock in many forms covered this week.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Apr 24, 2012

• Music Reviews: Heidevolk, Lonewolf, Mekong Delta, Moonspell, Mystic Prophecy, & Prong

  It is time for releases from the heavier end of the rock spectrum.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Apr 16, 2012

• Music Reviews: A Liquid Landscape, AtomA, A Whisper in the Noise, Frames, OSI, and Skyharbor

  A progtastic collection of rock/metal this week.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Apr 09, 2012

• Music Review: Primal Rock Rebellion, Furyon, Jack Blades, Jeff Scott Soto, Pretty Maids, and Dark Suns

  Hard rock, meh rock, and some rather odd rock.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Mar 30, 2012

• Music Reviews: Astral Doors, Steve Hogarth + Richard Barbieri, A Sound of Thunder, Huntress, Craaft and Joe Matera

  A mixed bag of rock and prog goodness.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Mar 22, 2012

• Music DVD Review: En Vivo by Iron Maiden

  Yet another new Iron Maiden live DVD ... but annoyingly worth every penny.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Mar 21, 2012